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A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing.…
A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasioned by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasion'd by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1714
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4. Our Obedience to the Will of God must be Constant. So is the Will of God done in Heaven: The Glorified Souls they never do any thing else but the Will of God; and they are always doing that: Rev. 7.15. They Serve him day and night in his Temple. The holy Angels are Constant in their Obedience: They Always behold the Face of God, Mat. 18.10. If they Always behold his Face, they Always do his Will. When God employs them in any Service, they go on with it, & never turn aside or desist from it, until they have done it. It is therefore said of the Living Creatures that they turned not when they went, Ezek. 1.9. Thus should we do the Will of ⟨p. 23⟩God on Earth with Constancy & Perseverance: Psal. 119.112. I have inclined my heart to perform thy Statutes always, even to the end. God Promised Solomon the Kingdom, on condition of Constancy in Obedience: 1 Chron. 28.7. I will establish his Kingdom for ever, if he be Constant to do my Commandments. Nor has God Promised the Kingdom of Heaven to any other Obedience but that which is Constant and Persevering. If men would have Eternal Life, they must seek it in a way of Patient Continuance in well doing, Rom. 2.7. They that thus keep the Commandments of God; that Fear him & keep all his Commandments always, it shall go well with them forever.
We proceed to the Third Enquiry proposed, viz. The Reason of the Doctrine before us; Why we should do the Will of God: There is infinite Reason for it.